Ps 10: 2, 8-18
Excerpt:..It is a great and dreadful day: a day of banishment for the wicked. Allow me to requote David from Ps 10. “ The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall BY HIS STRONG ONEs. 11 He hath said in his heart, God … hideth his face; he will never see it. 12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand…15Break thou the arm of the wicked and evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none … that the man of the earth may no more oppress.” Ps 10: 2, 8-18. The strong ones of the lions you do recall, are the corrupt Christians whom the crouching lions, those men whom, in the last day, ancient Jacob defined to be —not all Jews but the pharisaical Jews— who, true to Jacob’s prophecy of them, in like fashion plotted the death of Jesus. Making Pontious Pilate the first example of their strong ones. Reminding you, it says, “The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy…” Thus …